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THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Tuesday, June 18, 1968
KU strikes out in Big Eight team
Danny Thompson, slick fielding and good hitting shortstop from champion Oklahoma State, is the only unanimous choice on this year's 11-man all-Big Eight Conference baseball team.
A repeater from last year, Thompson, a junior, was ranked fifth in Conference hitting with a .356 mark, up from his sophomore mark of .280 which helped earn him a first team spot last year.
Thompson was second in doubles with nine and tied for third in home runs with three. His 16 runs batted in placed him in fourth and his 26 hits during the 18 Big Eight games Oklahoma State played tied him with the only other repeater from last year, Kansas State's Jack Woolsey.
A JUNIOR LEFT fielder, Woolsey, who was fourth in the hitting race with a .361 mark, led the league in triples (four), home runs (five), and runs batted in (26). His slugging average for the year was an exceptional .708. Best example of his speed comes in the stolen bases department where he tied for second with nine.
This marked the second year in a row that Woolsey has led the Big Eight in plated runs, running his career total to 42. While moving to an all-league spot last year, he hit .339 and drove in 16 runs.
Stocked heavily by underclassmen, this year's team quickly reflects the balance of talent around the Conference. In addition to Thompson, champion Oklahoma State placed outfielders Steve Houck and Wayne Weatherly on the first team and two more on the second unit. With Woolsey from Kansas State on the first unit were Tom Wheeler, second base, and Nick Horner, pitcher.
MISSOUR'S TWO first teamers were Bill Griffin, third base, and Rich Henninger, pitcher. Oklahoma also had a pair of first liners, outfielder Dick Turner and catcher Gary Brooks. Colorado was represented by Dan Ruth, first baseman.
Of this group, only Wheeler, Griffin, Turner, and Weatherly are seniors. Sophomores on the unit are Houck, the Conference's leading hitter this year with a 424 mark; Henninger, the Big Eight's top pitcher with a 1.14 earned-run average; and Horner, who tied a league mark with his seven wins.
Tightest race for a spot came from the catchers. In all, seven received votes, with Brooks holding a one-vote edge over Iowa State's Dan Bolte, who, in turn, held a one-vote margin over Kansas' Cole Stimson.
IT WAS JUST as close at third base, but only two men were involved. Griffin and Oklahoma's Gary Harper, a first-team selection at second base last year. The Missouri senior ended up edging Harper by a single tally.
Nearly joining Thompson as unanimous selections were Ruth, Woolsey, and Wheeler. All three were named on every ballot, but Ruth and Wheeler were given a second-team ranking on one, while Woolsey was rated the second-best outfielder on three of the lists submitted by the Big Eight's coaches.
FIRST TEAM
Dan Ruth (C), junior (.368) .. 1B
Tom Wheeler (KB), senior
(.417) ... 2B
Billy Griffin (M), senior
(.262) ... 3B
Bunny Thompson (OS), junior
( .356) ... SS
Jack Woolsey (KS), junior
( .361) ... OF
Dick Turner (O), senior
( .348) ... OF
Steve Houck (OS), sophomore
( .424) ... OF
Wayne Weatherly (OS), senior
( .297) ... OF
Gary Brooks (O), junior ( .351) C
C Rick Henninger (M), sophomore
( 5-2, 1.14 ) P
Nick Horner (KS), sophomore
( 7-1, 3.75 ) P
SECOND TEAM
Rudy Stroupe (M), senior
( .294 ) 1B
Scott Harrington (O), sophomore
( .349 ) 2B
Gary Harper (O), junior
( .137 ) 3B
Bob Tate (O), junior ( .328 ) SS
Bob McDaniel (M), sophomore
( .319 ) OF
Lloyd Hutchinson (C), junior
( .352 ) OF
Jim Stevenson (N), senior
( .282 ) OF
Dane Bolte (IS) C
Dave Hartman (IS), senior
4-4, 2.71 C
Mike Camp (OS), sophomore
( 4-1, 1.78 ) P
Bill Dobbs (OS), junior ( 5-2,
3.05 ) P
Whitley to try out for Olympics
KU's Stan Whitley finished fifth in the long jump at the NCAA track and field championship Saturday to qualify for the Olympics tryouts.
Whitley jumped 25 feet, one inch. Another Jayhawker, Doug Knop, hurled the discus 172 feet, three inches, to take seventh in that competition.
Southern California's Trojans successfully defended their title despite a tremendous showing by little Gerry Lindgren and his Washington State teammates.
Lindgren's time of 13 minutes, 57.2 seconds, for the three miles and 188.7 yards was one of five meet records on the sunny afternoon. The 120-pound distance ace wound up his collegiate career with his sixth national meet championship.
Other meet records went to Dave Patrick of Villanova in the 1,500 meters at 3:39.9; Dick Fosbury of Oregon State, 7-feet, $2\frac{1}{4}$ inches in the high jump; Lee Evans of San Jose State with 45 seconds flat in the 400 meters and Lennox Burgher of Nebraska and Jamaica with a 53-foot, $1\frac{1}{2}$-inch triple jump.
STAN WHITLEY
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